FinOps (Financial Operations) is a cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to maximize business value by helping engineering, finance, and business teams collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. It brings financial accountability to the variable spending model of cloud, enabling distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.

The FinOps framework combines systems, best practices, and culture to increase an organization's ability to understand cloud costs and make informed business decisions. By implementing FinOps principles, companies can optimize their cloud resources, improve forecasting accuracy, establish governance policies, and drive accountability across teams—ultimately leading to more efficient cloud usage and significant cost savings without sacrificing innovation or performance.